On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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