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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

