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