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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

