On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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