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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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