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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

