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?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown