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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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