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?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

