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...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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