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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
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...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston