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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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