Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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