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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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