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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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