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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

