On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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