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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown