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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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