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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

