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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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