On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

