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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
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...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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