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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

