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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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 The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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