On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
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...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

