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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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