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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

