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...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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