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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
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
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

