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?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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