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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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