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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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