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