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?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
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...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

