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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

