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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

