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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

