Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

