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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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