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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

