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?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

