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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
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...
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
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

