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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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?
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Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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