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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
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...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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