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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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