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

