Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

