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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

