Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

