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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

