On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

