On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
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...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

