Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

