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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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