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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

