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?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

