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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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