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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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