On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown