Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
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Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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