Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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