Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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