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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

