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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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