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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown