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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

