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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
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...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
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
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown