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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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