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
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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