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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Millerโs Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

