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?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

