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...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
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