On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

