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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

