Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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