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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital 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
Carnegie Library In Watertown