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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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