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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

