On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

