On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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