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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

