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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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