Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

