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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

