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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

