On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

