On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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