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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

