Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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