In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime โ the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

