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?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

