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...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
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...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

