Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

