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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
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