On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

