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?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

