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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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