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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

