On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

