Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

