Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

