Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
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...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

