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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

