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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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