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?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
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...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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