On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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