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?
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
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...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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
Old Brewery In Preston