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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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