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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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