On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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