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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

