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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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