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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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