Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

