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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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