On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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