Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

