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?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
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 Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

