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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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