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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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