Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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