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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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