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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

