In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Twin Cities Area
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

