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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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