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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

