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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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