On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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