For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Twin Cities Area
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

