On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

