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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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