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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Exploring Ottawa
Donโt you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

