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?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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