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...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
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