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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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