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?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
Itโs clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

