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?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
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...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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