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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
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...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

