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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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