On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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