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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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