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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

