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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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