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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

