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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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