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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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