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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

