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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

