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?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

