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