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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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