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?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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