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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

