On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

