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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

