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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

