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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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