On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown