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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

