On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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