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?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
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