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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

