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?
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

