On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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