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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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