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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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