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...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

