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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

