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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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