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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston