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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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