Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

