In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

