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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

