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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

