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?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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