Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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