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?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

