Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

