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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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