At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Twin Cities Area
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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