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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

