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...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

