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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

