On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

