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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

