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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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