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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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