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?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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