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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
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 Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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