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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

