On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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