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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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