On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

