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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

