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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

