On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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