♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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