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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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