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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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