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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic 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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

