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