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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

