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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
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...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul