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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

