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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
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