The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Twin Cities Area
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

