Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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