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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

