On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

