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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

