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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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