On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

