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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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