On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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