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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

