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?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

