Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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