On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

