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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

