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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
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...

