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?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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