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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

