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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

