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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

