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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul