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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

