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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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