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?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

