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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered 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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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