Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
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...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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