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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

