Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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