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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
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
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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