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...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

