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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

