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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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