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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

