On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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