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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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