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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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