Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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