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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
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...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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