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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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