On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

