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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

