On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
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...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

