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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston