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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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