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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

