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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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