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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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