Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

