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?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston