On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
Itโs clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

