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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
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