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?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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