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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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