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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

