On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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