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?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown