On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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