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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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