Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

