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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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