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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

