On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

