On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

