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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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