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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor 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