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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

