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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
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...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

