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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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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