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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

