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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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