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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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