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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

