On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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