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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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
Old Brewery In Preston