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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

