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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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