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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
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 Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

