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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

