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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
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...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

