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?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

