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
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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