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?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston