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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

