In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

