Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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