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?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

