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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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