On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didnโt take long for...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

