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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

