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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Exploring Ottawa
Donโt you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

