Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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