On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
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...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

