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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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