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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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