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?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
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...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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