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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
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...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

