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