On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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