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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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