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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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