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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

