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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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