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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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