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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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