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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

