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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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