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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
