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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

