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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...

