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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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