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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

