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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

