On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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 Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

