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?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

