On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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