On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

