On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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