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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

