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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
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...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

