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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown