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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

