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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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