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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

