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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

