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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

