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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

