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?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown