Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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