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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

