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