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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

