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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown