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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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