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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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