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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
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