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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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