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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

