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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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