On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
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...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

