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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
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
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

