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...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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