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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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