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?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

