Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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