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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

