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...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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