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?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown