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?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

