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...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

