Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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