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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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