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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

