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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

