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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
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