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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City