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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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