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...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

