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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

