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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown