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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

