Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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