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?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

