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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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