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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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