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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

