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?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

