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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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