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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown