On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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