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
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

