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
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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