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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown