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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

