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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

