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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
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...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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