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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

