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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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