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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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