Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown