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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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