Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

