On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

