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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

