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?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

