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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

