On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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