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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

