On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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