On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown