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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
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