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...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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