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
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

