On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...

