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?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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