On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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