On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
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
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

