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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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