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
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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