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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City