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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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