On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Twin Cities Area
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

