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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City