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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

