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...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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