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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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