On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
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...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

