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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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