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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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