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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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