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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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