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?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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