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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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