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?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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