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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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