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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
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...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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