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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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