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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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