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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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