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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

