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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

