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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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