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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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