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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

