On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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