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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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