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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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