On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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