Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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