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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

