On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

