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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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