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 Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

