On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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