On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

