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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

