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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

