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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

