On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

