Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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