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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

