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?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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