Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston