Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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