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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

