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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

