On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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