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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

