On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

