On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
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