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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

