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
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
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
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown