On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

