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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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