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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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