Download or read book Will to Murder written by Gail Feichtinger and published by Zenith City Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 27, 1977, an intruder entered Glensheen, the stately manor built along the Lake Superior shore by Chester A. Congdon, patriarch of one of Duluth, Minnesota's, most generous and respected families. Before leaving with a basketful of stolen jewelry, the intruder used a satin pillow to smother Chester's last surviving daughter, Elisabeth Congdon, after killing the heiress's valiant nurse, Velma Pietila, by beating her with a candlestick -- crimes set in motion by a hastily hand-written will penned just days before the killings. For the first time the story of the Glensheen killings and the crimes and trials surrounding Marjorie Caldwell Hagen, Elisabeth Congdon's notorious adopted daughter, is told through the eyes of former Duluth Police Detective and St. Louis County Sheriff Gary Waller and St. Louis County Prosecutor John DeSanto, the men who led the investigation and prosecution of Marjorie and her husband, Roger Caldwell.
Download or read book Secrets of the Congdon Mansion written by Joe Kimbal and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glensheen s Daughter written by Sharon Darby Hendry and published by Cable Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Congdon case had it all: murder in one of America's great mansions [in Duluth, MN], multi-million dollar inheritance, family feuds, suicide, private eyes, and investigative intrigue ..."--Back cover
Download or read book Glensheen written by Tony Dierckins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 200 modern and historic photographs guide you along a detailed room-by-room tour of Minnesota's most famous mansion and stroll through the estate grounds as you learn the story of the Congdon family and how Chester created the fortune that financed their grand home on Lake Superior's North Shore."--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Minnesota Marvels written by Eric Dregni and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Minnesota Cookie Book written by Lee Svitak Dean and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers’ stories It’s cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there’s nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart. A celebration of the rich traditions, creativity, and taste of the region, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book collects the best-loved recipes and baking lore from fifteen years of the Star Tribune’s popular holiday cookie contest. Drop cookies and cutouts, refrigerator cookies and bars; Swedish shortbread, Viennese wafers, and French–Swiss butter cookies; almond palmiers; chai crescents and taffy treats; snowball clippers, cherry pinwheels, lime coolers, and chocolate-drizzled churros: a dizzying array and all delightful, the recipes in this book recall memories of holidays past and inspire the promise of happy gatherings to come. These are winning cookies in every sense, the best of the best chosen by the contest’s judges, accompanied by beautiful photographs as instructive as they are enticing. A treat for any occasion, whether party, bake sale, or after-school snack, each time- and taste-tested recipe is perfect for starting a tradition of one’s own.
Download or read book Duluth s Historic Parks written by Nancy S. Nelson and published by Zenith City Press. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duluths remarkable park system consists of about 170 properties and roadways encompassing approximately 12,000 acresthats roughly 25 percent of the entire city dedicated to public parks.
Download or read book Augie s Secrets written by Neal Karlen and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Damon Runyon’s Guys and Dolls.” Star Tribune “Deliciously snappy.” American Jewish World “Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie’s straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked their guns at the door when they visited Augie’s.” MinnPost “Augie’s Secrets is filled with stunning, stylish prose that captures the flavor of the Jewish underworld of downtown Minneapolis down to its last rubout and pastrami sandwich.” Paul Maccabee, author of John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920–1936
Download or read book Minnesota Open House written by Krista Finstad Hanson and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The user-friendly guide to nearly two-hundred breathtaking historic house museums across Minnesota.
Download or read book Minnesota Architect written by Paul Clifford Larson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a practice that spanned fifty-four years (1882-1936), Clarence Johnston designed more buildings than any other figure in Minnesota's history. As Minnesota State Architect for thirty years, Johnston designed virtually all the buildings on thirty-five state-owned sites and campuses including the University of Minnesota, and he was also the most sought-after residential architect for two generations of St. Paul's upper classes. Forty-two of his designs line Summit Avenue alone, one of the most famous and best-preserved Victorian boulevards in America.
Download or read book Duluth Minnesota written by Sheldon T. Aubut and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duluth's nineteenth and twentieth century history is presented through vintage photographs.
Download or read book Spirit of the Lights written by Chuck Frederick and published by Lake Superior Port Cities. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcia Hales shares stories from herself and others who have been touched or affected in some way by the elaborate display of Christmas lights that decorate her home during the holiday season.
Download or read book Historic Glensheen 1905 1930 written by Tony Dierckins and published by Zenith City Press. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glensheen as it has not been seen in over 100 years. Inside you will find 115 photographs-- most never before seen by the public-- of Glensheen, the historic Congdon estate along the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. Many of the images were captured in 1909, the year the Congdons first moved in; they show the house newly decorated and the 22-acre estate just as Chester Congdon had envisioned. Late photos, taken after Chester's death, show how Clara Congdon allowed the grounds to grow wild. Discover historic Glensheen through photos of: more than half of the mansion's 39 rooms, including the reception room, library, den, living room, dining room, breakfast room, and the bedroom of every family member; the boathouse, gardener's cottage, and carriage house, as well as four greenhouses that have been lost to time; the estate grounds-- including the stone bridge over Tischer Creek and the rustic wooden bridges that once traversed the creek and Bent Broom-- and beyond to Congdon Park"--Back cover.
Download or read book The King s Shopping written by June Crebbin and published by Walker. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based around the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence", these three stories expand the stories of the king, the queen and the maid in amusing and modern ways! Ages 6+
Download or read book Nightingale written by Suzanne Congdon LeRoy and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightingale is the astonishing true story of Elisabeth Mannering Congdon, heiress to a mining fortune and victim of one of Minnesota's most notorious homicides. Entrusted with the burdens and joys of memory, Elisabeth's eldest granddaughter, Suzanne Congdon LeRoy, combines lived experience with meticulous historical research, detailing a perilous journey as she tries to escape her own mother, a dangerous serial criminal falling deeper into madness. Elisabeth Congdon emerges not as heiress or victim but as the messenger of spring and the key to her granddaughter's survival. Her early efforts to nurture a foundation of hope, optimism, and the power of possibility lead Suzanne to advanced education, a remarkable nursing career and the discovery of the ineffable relationship between healing oneself, service to others, and the connection to the spirit and beauty of the earth that makes her whole again. Nightingale is a book of rare power, beauty, and hope.
Download or read book Lost Duluth written by Tony Dierckins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what Duluth has lost. Through over 400 photographs and sketches of vanished homes, buildings, landmarks, industries, and residential neighborhoods, Lost Duluth takes readers on a journey through the city's past, introducing them to the people--from hard-scrabble pioneers to wealthy industrialists to impoverished immigrant laborers--whose ambitions and dreams built the Zenith City on a swamp and a rocky hillside at the head of the Great Lakes. A finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. "Duluth has always been a city like none other in the Midwest, with an architectural history as distinctive as its steep hills, rushing creeks and lakeside vistas. Lost Duluth offers a beautifully illustrated look at some of the city's most prominent vanished buildings, from grand Victorian mansions and row houses to monumental works of public and commercial architecture. This book will make you pine for the city of old while opening your eyes to unimagined wonders, and even life-long residents will be surprised to find how much has been lost on the destructive road to progress." -- Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities and Once There Were Castles
Download or read book Double Jeopardy written by Bob Hill and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1995 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obession, murder, and justice denied.
