Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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