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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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