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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

