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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

