On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

