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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown