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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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