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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church 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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

