Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

