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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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