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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

