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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone โskyscraperโ in St Paul. The eight...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you ๐ The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

