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?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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