On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

