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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

