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?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

