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...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

