Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
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...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
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...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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