The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Twin Cities Area
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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