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