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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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