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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown