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...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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