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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

