On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

