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?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

