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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown