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...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

