On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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