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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

