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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

