On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Twin Cities Area
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

