On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

