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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown