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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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