On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

