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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
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...

