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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

