Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

