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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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