Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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