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
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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