On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

