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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

