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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

