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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

