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...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

