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