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?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City