On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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 Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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